taxicab
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- noun
- /ˈtæksɪˌkæb/
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taxi
- We canvassed all the limousine and taxicab companies in the city.
They needed about four taxis to bring it over.
- They needed about four taxis to bring it over.
- People drive trucks, taxis, trains, and most of them are men.
- Yes, but why is it that London taxis use the bus lines in London?
- So you've got Travis Kalniak And literally through that single app, I mean, they don't own any taxis, they don't own any cars.
- If you look at, you know, Uber or Airbnb, people replace their cars and Uber was not competing ultimately with taxis.
- Times Square, Dumbo, taxis, traffic and so on.
- So robo taxi is going to be the big value then, right?
- But now introducing Bitcoin accepting in all Tesla robo taxis, you can pay Bitcoin anywhere in the world.
Examples
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She decided to take a taxicab after missing the last bus home.
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A taxicab where Jonah, with his head out the window, regards the building with awe.
Fiction book (1993) -
Yeah, they got in a taxicab and went off down that street.
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Come quick, she said, but the taxicab took forever and the snow had gotten worse.
Fiction book (1997) -
It's been three weeks since she took the baby home from the hospital in a taxicab.
Fiction book (1994) -
While sitting in the cool and comfortable backseat of a taxicab, you can avoid the following:
Blog text (12) -
Instead, she takes the forty-mile ride in a taxicab.
Academic text (2007) -
The driver wasn't around, and we had to take an ordinary taxicab.
Fiction book (2002) -
And so she realized that in London, the taxicab drivers are expert navigators.
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Yellow taxicabs were parked along the street with taxicab drivers drinking coffee and reading The Post.
Fiction book (1997)
Synonyms
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A car that carries people to places for money
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A car with a driver people pay to drive them to a place
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9.4
An old word for a taxi
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A taxi that is not official and picks up passengers from the street without a license
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A small car like a taxi that you book in advance
A car you pay to take you where you want in a city
A taxi that drives itself and carries people
How Comfortable
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- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Taxicab is made from the two words taxi and cab; taxi comes from taximeter, a small machine that measures the 'fare', and cab comes from cabriolet, a light 'carriage' for hire. So, a taxicab is simply a vehicle you hire that charges a measured fare.